rustyzman
Well-known member
Yeah, that is BS stuff there. I used to type disclaimers on all my tickets where a problem was not fixed outside of my control or parts were falling off. Did not do much most of the time, but jogged a couple memories once or twice. A comeback is when I made a mistake that I should not have made. The rest is not.
I was OE or take it elsewhere on converters at that time. There were no other viable options. At the time we realized that none of the aftermarket cats and rebuilt cats (worse) were CARB legal. Realized quickly that only ones that could meet that CARB spec would possibly survive. Rest were garbage. My bay neighbor got hooked by the boss to do a bunch of testing for Walker on a car that had a Walker early failure. An engineer and a rep came in to do testing on some different versions they were working on. They had him put 3 different cats on the thing in one day and give them data, test drives, etc. About 4 hours into messing around with them he stopped and asked the boss if he was getting paid for all this (flatrate shop). Boss as I recall played the "its in the first 12 months of warranty" thing on him and kind of brushed him off. I think he got paid for one, and only one and that was stretching it because it was "warranty". Last time that happened too.
He freebee'd a diag on me for a Chamber of Commerce friend of his without my permission. Had quite the argument about that one, refused to pay me. That free hour stopped my tiered pay scale from hitting the next scale up for the week. Flatrate can be brutal if you are an honest tech.
Dealer 10% off only on parts is why we stopped working on Saabs in the 90's. Before all the internet stuff was around we only had one dealer to go to and had to drive ~25min each way to get a part every time we needed something. Plus Saabs were weird and a pain to work on. Most other euro stuff was available somewhere, but not Saab...